Seattle & King County
How a 'Sputnik moment' built modern Seattle
It began with the idea of a world's fair, desperately in need of a theme.
David Brewster
David Brewster founded Crosscut. He is now the director of Folio: The Seattle Athenaeum.
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Politics
Steven Holl's Seattle library that got away
We narrowly missed getting a major work by this hugely influential architect. A new library by him in New York gives a glimpse of the lyrical architecture that might have been here.
Culture
Resurrecting churches for new uses
Declining congregations and the popping of the real estate bubble have made more churches available for secular uses. Too bad the obstacles to conversion are so numerous.
Politics
Lessons from Black Friday
It's all about rewarding the wrong things, and aspiring to the wrong kind of metropolitan life.
Politics
An Oregon idea for saving U.W.
Alarmed at the steep drop in state support, state universities are looking to creative finance to rescue their budgets. Here's an idea from Eugene that might play in Montlake.